MSU pitches $10 per hour athletic fee to SGA
BRITTANY NORMAN
MANAGING EDITOR
A proposed athletics fee could be
tacked on to tuition bills by 2009 if
the Student Government Association votes in favor of it.
“In a nutshell what’s being looked
at is a fee of $10 a credit hour with a
maximum of $120 a semester,” said
Associate Vice President of Student
Affairs Keith Lamb.
The fee has been pitched to the
SGA, Lamb said. If they vote to
pass it with a simple majority, it
will be put to a referendum of the
student body, which would require
a two-thirds majority vote.
Following that, it would be
passed to the Board of Regents and

then the Texas State Legislature.
Lamb said that if approved, the
fee would take effect in fall 2009.
“It would generate about $1.2
million (per year),” Lamb said.
“Right now student service fees
generate about $2 million a year
that funds areas like the counseling center, UPB, disability services,
some music programs, some club
athletic programs, SGA and the
Vinson Health Center.”
About $500,000, a quarter of the
available funds, are currently used
to fund athletics. Lamb said if the
fund is instated, that money will remain in the student services budget
to be possibly redistributed.
Lamb said some of the possible
uses for the extra student services

money include extended hours at
the Vinson Health Center, increased
funding for organizations, and increased hours in areas like the coun-

seling center or wellness center.
Lamb says the athletics program
and the university as a whole would
beneﬁt from this fee.

The Importance
of Being Earnest

“What we have at MSU is ﬂat
enrollment of about 6,000 students
and an increasing residential population,” Lamb said. “The larger the
residential population, the more demand there is on services offered
through student affairs.”
Yet Lamb says the budgets remain
ﬂat at best, and keeping $500,000 in
the student services budget is very
attractive.
He also believes that the boost to
athletics will beneﬁt the university.
“We have a very competitive athletics program right now,” Lamb said.
“Right or wrong, a lot of students
who don’t play athletics do look at an
athletics program when choosing an
institution. Athletics very much helps
us achieve a critical mass of students

Grad school
seminar set
for Saturday
MARVIN ARTS
FOR THE WICHITAN

PATRICK JOHNSTON | THE WICHITAN
Shannon Dietz as Lady Bracknell and Matt Grifﬁn as Jack Worthing rehearse a scene from the MSU Theatre’s production of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” The play is scheduled to be shown Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m.
and Dec. 2 at 2:30 p.m. MSU students get in free. General admission is $7.

that we need to operate the level of
student services that we have, never
mind what we need.”
As for the athletics program, the
fee would aid in the possible addition of more sports teams.
“I know because of Title IX and
gender equity issues we’ll be adding
about three new sports in the coming years,” Lamb said. “To stay in
the Lone Star Conference the number of teams will be increasing, and
we have to make sure we’re doing it
on an equitable basis.”
The soccer ﬁeld could also receive better lighting to replace what
the facility currently has. Lamb said
the lighting on the ﬁeld barely meets
NCAA standards to play nighttime
games.

The Career Management Center
will host its second annual “Getting
into Graduate/Professional School
Seminar” on Saturday.
The day will start off with a practice exam from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in
Prothro-Yeager Hall. The GMAT,
GRE, LSAT, MCAT, DAT, OAT and
PCAT will be offered at no charge.
After the test, a graduate and
professional school seminar will
be held in the Clark Student Center
Kiowa Ex-Students Room.
The seminar will last from 2 p.m.
to 3:30 p.m. Free pizza will be provided.
The seminar will be presented by
Joshua Harris who is in his ﬁrst year
working for Kaplan as a marketing
coordinator in Fort Worth.
The CMC is hoping it will have
a better turnout this year than last
year, college coordinator Melissa
Yip said.
Last year the CMC split the
seminar into two different sessions,
one in the evening and the other at
night.
“We combined both seminars

this year, because we didn’t want
the speaker to have to come back
twice,” Yip said.
Yip plans to hold the seminar before the test next year.
“I feel it would be better to have
the seminar before the test. There
are so many tests people get done at
different times and they just might
leave when they’re done and not
come back,” she said.
The CMC encourages any student interested in graduate or professional school to attend the seminar.
She encourages anyone who is
interested to come out, because it’s
never too late no matter what your
classiﬁcation is.
Harris will distribute various
handouts and packets that will include helpful hints and tips for getting into graduate or professional
school.
Some of the information that will
be included in those handouts will
be admission requirements for various institutions.
Many of those requirements include letters of recommendation,
work or professional experience,
GRE, GMAT, or LSAT or scores.

Money management skills key to success
Credit card debt crushes college aspirations for many
MINNA GILLIAM
FOR THE WICHITAN

INSIDE

On average, 50 percent of college students have maxed out their
credit cards, with a 17.8 percent interest rate, within the ﬁrst year. Statistically, more students leave college because of ﬁnancial debt than
for academic reasons. The startling
statements were made by Brandon
Marshall of Making It Count, a national ﬁrm that advises students on
money and other matters.
Marshall, part of the Student
Success Series, addressed the topic
of “Ultimate Money Skills: Scholars, Dollars, Budgets, and Bills”
Tuesday night in the Clark Student
Center.
“The average college student has
$2,700 in credit card debt,” Mar-

shall said. “The average interest
rate for student credit cards is 17.8
percent. This means the average
college student pays $480.60 per
year in interest.”
Marshall provided tips for creating wealth in college.
The ﬁrst step, he said, is to avoid
debt. Students should try to ﬁnd a
way to make money while going to
school, whether they work at a local
business or provide tutoring services to other students.
The second step is to avoid the
ﬁfth year of college, he said. Some
students decide to take a lighter semester as they near graduation. This
could cost up to $50,000, according
to Marshall.
Marshall justiﬁed this number by
saying the average student spends
about $20,000 during one year in

college. He combined that amount
with $30,000, the average annual
income of a college graduate.
The third step is to get good
grades, he noted. Students can receive scholarships and land jobs
based on their grade point averages.
Marshall offered ways to help
college students stick to their budgets such as buying used books
from www.half.com or the half
price book store. He advised young
people to buy a coffee maker or eat
at home rather than going out, to
use coupons, and never go grocery
shopping when you are hungry.
When planning the next trip home,
consider catching a ride with other
students from the same area, he
said.
“Minimal savings can be achieved

by anyone but college students need
to start doing it now,” Marshall said.
“It’s actually very easy to do. If you
were to take $4.30, which is what
the average coffee or fast food order
cost and put it into a secret place or
an account four times a week each
month until you retire, you should
have over $100,000.”
The program was chosen to empower students to develop smart
money management skills and ultimately achieve ﬁnancial independence.
Students were also given advice on how to effectively evaluate
credit cards and manage credit card
debt, how to create and maintain a
budget, choose a bank or ﬁnancial
institution, save money for the future, understand their spending habits and avoid identity theft.

Ludacris

Johnny Depp

Volleyball gallops on

Chris “Ludacris” Bridges
can’t stop laughing.

To have a career like
Depp’s, you need serious
charm.

MSU makes it to playoffs
despite conference tournament loss.

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Staff Editorial

New security
When is comes to technology the sky is no
longer the limit.
Creative, brilliant human minds can now think
up anything and bring it into existence,
First color televisions, then rockets on the moon,
and now we can clone body parts and put homing
devices in pets.
Scientists and inventors have created microchips
the size of a grain of rice to implant into human beings

Meth, suicide and realization hit home

with information such as your blood type, social security
numbers and even credit card information.
With these microchips you may someday soon be
able to open your car and even your house.
In theory, these chips are supposed to make
life easier. They can also help solve crime. If a child is
abducted, then he or she could be easily found.
But let’s look at the downside of this new,
“helpful” technology.
First off, the same brilliant minds that create
these chips create devices to pull the information off
the chips. If identity theft is such a big problem now,
imagine how easy it would be for someone to just walk
by you and gather all your information just by scanning
your wrist.
Secondly, let’s say you get your information
implanted in your forehead and six years from now,
scientists ﬁnd out that it causes brain tumors.
Fantastic!
All because it’s easier than carrying a debit card
in your wallet.
Many Christian groups consider these chips a
step toward the mark of the beast – since the implants
are in the hands and forehead.
And the scariest part of all?
Some people already have these devices
implanted in their bodies.
So, before you go and have your life put
on a chip and implanted into your body, weigh the
consequences. Is making your life “easier” really worth
it?

A few
y e a r s
b ack ,
my cousin, my
brother,
my best
friend
c o m mitted
CHRISTIAN
s
uicide,
MCPHATE
locked
within the conﬁnes of jail.
He was only 23.
And he was a meth addict.
The tragedy ripped through my
family in a variety of different ways
from denial to the destruction of
loved ones’ souls.
The tormenting questions of
“why did you do this, why did you
take the misconceived ‘easy way
out’ and was your life that bad?”
repeated in my mind as I tried to
rationalize the decision behind his
irrational action.
But it was too late.
He was silent.
God was silent.
And I was without an answer.
The addiction of Methamphet-

amines had run its devastating
course through the later part of his
young life.
Meth is psycho-stimulant drug
that induces a euphoria-like emotion that triggers a release of norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin.
The speed addict receives an
over-amped amount of artiﬁcial
stimulation that forces the brain to
stop making the necessary levels of
norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin.
A chain reaction of repetitive
tasks explode out of the addict such
as cleaning, hand-washing, arm
picking, scratching their heads and
carpet ﬁshing (an activity consisting
of an endless amount of hours spent
searching for droppings of their
beloved crank or ice on the ﬂoor
of their apartment, house, trailer
house, RV and cardboard box).
After the rush of speed fades, the
user goes through excessive sleeping for days at a time and becomes
prone to explosive mood swings,
paranoia and depression as well as
over-amped feelings of schizophrenia.
The drug transforms the minds

of the abusers and family members
into mental health clients.
The desires of escape and despair
helped fuel the ﬁres of my cousin’s
addiction, and it ended with the destruction of his ambitions, desires,
hopes and dreams.
The police arrested him for his
mental addiction.
And then he took his life.
And he is not the only one
trapped in this cycle of schizophrenic abuse.
The circle of dope addiction
sucks citizens throughout the state
of Texas and across the nation into
a whirlwind of drug chaos that destroys families and shatters lives.
And with the disbanding of the
North Texas Drug Task Force, the
cycle of crank continues to go unchecked, and now children as young
as 10 are doing the hated drug.
Of course, the government has
tried to implement regulations by
forcing citizens to purchase their
cold medicines (a main ingredient
in the manufacturing of meth) behind the counters of Wal-Mart and
the local pharmacies.
But this has not stopped the prob-

lem from spreading from the rural
communities to infect the rest of the
nation.
The addicts just get their addicted
family members and friends to help
purchase the sinus medicine. They
team up and hit the local grocery
stores, purchasing two boxes here
and two boxes there… until they
have enough to cook their beloved
drug.
In fact, the speed abusers use the
powers of their chaotic minds to
invent new ways to cook the drug
with the implementation of mobile
cooking labs stored in the trunk of
their cars.
It is amazing what an addict will
do to fool law enforcement ofﬁcials.
We as concerned citizens need to
help elected ofﬁcials (or elect ofﬁcials to) come up with a plan that
includes common sense, humane
treatment and rehabilitation.
We need to force our politicians
to hear the cries of the children and
stop this cycle of abuse from destroying their lives as well as our
own.

While
d r i v ing from
point A
to point B
yesterday
I
came
to
the
realization that I
CARLY BURRES
FOR THE WICHITAN had either
aloud or
in my head called several people
douche bags.
Upon realizing this I thought to
myself “hmmm, what/who deﬁnes a
douche bag exactly?” And I decided
that if I want to know, then my readers might want to know.
The Merriam-Webster Online
Dictionary states that the slang deﬁnition of a douche bag is “an unattractive or offensive person.”
But I feel as though there is more
to it than that. So here I lay out for
you, in numbered form of course,
the “deﬁnition” of a douche bag, according to Carly.
Douche bag deﬁnition numero
uno: A douche bag can be described
as someone who at some point in
their life was taught about manners
and being polite, but still refuses to
follow the guidelines.
Example: I have a manager
who believes that his gold name
badge puts him above holding
open the door for one of his employees who happens to have her

arms full of stuff.
Same goes for men at the bar.
Being drunk isn’t an excuse to not
hold the door open for a lady. And
by lady, I mean any female.
Douche bag deﬁnition numero
dos: A douche bag can be described
as a customer who makes you do a
return because the product rang up
ﬁve cents more than the tag said.
Example: I had a customer who
bought a seasonal item. The tag said
it was on sale for $5.79 but it rang
up $5.84. Oh my goodness. What
will she ever do?
Douche bag deﬁnition numero
tres: A douche bag can also be described as the manager who doesn’t
care about a customer’s ﬁve-cent
return.
Example: My manager replied to
the previously spoken of customer
with this, “Excuse me Ma’am. But
if you really care that much about
ﬁve cents then I will give you ﬁve
cents from my pocket. But don’t
waste my time. Have a good day.”
Douche bag deﬁnition numero
quatro: A douche bag can be described as the customer service person on the call hotline that is supposed to help you ﬁx whatever you
need ﬁxing, but just can’t seem to
do it for some reason.
Example: I was recently at my internship at a local advertising agency, and they had to buy a new piece
of computer equipment. This new
piece of equipment kept shutting off

for no reason at all. When my boss
called the hotline the ﬁrst question
the man on the phone asked was “Is
it plugged in?”
Of course, douche bag.
And last but not least, douche
bag numero cinco: A super douche
can be deﬁned as the drunken idiot
at the bar/house party who either
says or does something totally uncalled for or idiotic.
Example Number 1: I was at the
beloved Old Town the other night
and I was waiting on my friends to
get their drinks.
This guy walks up to me and tells
me I’m awesome. Then he asks me
if I need help pouring my beer.
While he may have thought he
was being nice, or maybe he thought
that was a pick-up line, I found it offensive that this super douche didn’t
think I could pour my own beer
even though he just stood there and
watched me do it.
Example Number 2: It is inappropriate (unless the person okays
it ﬁrst) to grab the private parts of
someone in the bar.
The man that walked up to me
while I was trying to enjoy my
Mavs game on Thursday obviously
felt that it was appropriate to grab
my chest. I, of course, felt very different about this.
So I politely said, “Super douche,
don’t touch my boobs. They aren’t
for you.”
Example number 3: When at a

club or bar, if a man wants to get
the attention of a female who is
passing by, the appropriate and polite thing to do is NOT to grab her
by the waist, arm, butt or any other
body part or item that might be on
her being.
This is very rude and offensive.
And doing this automatically puts
you into the super douche range.
We are not these little dolls that
you can pull on whenever you feel
like it.
Our clothes are there to cover us,
not to act as some kind of reel for
you to yank on when you want us.
And just because you pull a girl
into when you want to dance with
her doesn’t mean that she is going
to want to dance with you.
At some point in everyone’s
life, we have all been called a
douche, douche bag, super douche,
douche’o’rama and whatever else
you creative funky monkeys come
up with.
It’s a fact of life.
I have been a douche at some
point, you have been a douche, my
best friends and roommates have all
been douches.
But the point I am trying to make
is follow the advice of pointsincase.
com staff writer, Mike Forest, when
he said:
“Don’t be a douchebag. Everything else will be ﬁne if you can remember that.”

When a veteran expert gets lured into a trap,
she remains unﬂappable
ROBIN MATHER JENKINS
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
Renee Ferguson was thrilled
when the Food Network contacted her about helping them ﬁlm a
show to air near Thanksgiving.
The Geneva, Ill., resident, author of “Talk Turkey to Me,”
squired the television crew around
a few weeks ago and was undaunted when the network told
her it had arranged for her to do a
cooking demonstration at Kendall
College.
After 14 years of thinking on
her feet while working the Butterball Turkey Talk-line and ﬁelding
questions from confused consumers, Ferguson thought the audience of Kendall culinary students
couldn’t phase her.
The producer, who wouldn’t
tell us his name, told the kids that
the Food Network was taping the
show and explained that he would,
from time to time, ask them to applaud.
“It might not make sense to
you,” he said, “but it might be because we need to go into a commercial break with some energy.
And when I ask you to applaud,
I want you to go crazy. Let’s see
what you can do.”
The students responded raucously, with whistles, hoots, arm
pumping and extended, deafening
applause.
The producer called the students out of their seats and asked
them to crowd ‘round the counter
to watch Ferguson work. He en-

couraged them to call out questions, which they seemed happy to
do.
Ferguson, meanwhile, began to
explain about the sausage-apple
stufﬁng she planned to make.
“I think whether you call it
stufﬁng or dressing is kind of a
regional thing,” Ferguson said as
she plopped a pound of bulk sweet
Italian sausage into a skillet to
brown. “Down South, a woman
once told me, `We don’t stuff our
turkeys, honey, we dress them!’
But purists say: If it goes into the
bird, it’s stufﬁng; if it’s baked
alongside, it’s dressing.”
Next, Ferguson talked about
the apples she was using. “Granny
Smiths, because they stay ﬁrm and
they’re a little tart, and ...”
“Big applause,” said the producer. The students obliged.
As Ferguson waited, the applause grew louder, with more
insistent hoots and lots of yelling.
And there, pushing a cart laden
with ingredients, was Food Network star Bobby Flay.
Ferguson’s eyebrows shot skyward, her hands clapped to her
cheeks. The roar of applause went
on and on as Flay, natty in a knit
argyle vest over an eggplant-colored shirt, came around to face her
over the counter. Ferguson clearly
realized what was happening:
She’d been tricked into an episode
of “Throwdown with Bobby Flay,”
the Food Network series in which
Flay challenges an acknowledged
expert to an unanticipated cookoff.

“I’m here to challenge you to
a turkey throwdown,” Flay said,
when the applause ﬁnally dwindled. “Do you accept?”
Flay was taken aback, perhaps,
by Ferguson’s robust riposte: “I’ll
be happy to show you where to put
your stufﬁng!”
Over the next 90 minutes, the
two worked side by side. Ferguson’s turkey with apricot sauce
featured the dressing she had demonstrated, while Flay made a dressing of intentionally overcooked
wild rice (“so it blossoms,” he
said), pomegranate seeds, chorizo
and goat cheese. While Ferguson
worked along steadily, looking
conﬁdent and calm, Flay paced
back and forth behind the counter,
looking for ingredients, checking
a pot’s progress.
Later, Ferguson confessed that
she was nowhere near as conﬁdent
and calm as she appeared.
“Talk about pressure cooking!” she said. “I almost forgot to
put the sausage in the dressing! I
would have forgotten, if Bobby
hadn’t whispered to me. But what
an honor!”
As the two worked, the students
called out questions.
“Hey, Bobby, what are you serving for Thanksgiving dessert this
year?” (Pumpkin-bread pudding,
he said.) “Hey, Bobby, is there
more pressure on `Throwdown’ or
on `Iron Chef’?” (“Iron Chef,” he
said.)
By 2 p.m., the pair were dishing
up samples for the audience. Onlookers were encouraged to taste
both, because they would be interviewed later, the producer said. By
and by, judges Chris Koetke, dean
of the culinary school, and Matt
McMillan, a Kendall alum who’s
vice president of culinary matters
for Big Bowl restaurants, arrived.
The judges were seated at a
table, with Ferguson and Flay
standing behind them. A Kendall
student in a bizarre plush hat resembling a whole turkey with its
legs in the air stood between Ferguson and Flay.
The judges conferred. They
whispered to one another. They
jotted comments. They whispered
some more. They shook their
heads in disagreement. They nodded in agreement. And ﬁnally, ﬁnally, they were ready to announce
their decision.
“It’s tough,” said Koetke. “One
is very traditional and the other is
very experimental, very unusual.
But we have decided that the winner is ...”
Sorry. Can’t tell you. Food Network swore me to secrecy.

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Chris “Ludacris” Bridges can’t
stop laughing.
A rapper with a powerful vocal
delivery, he keeps envisioning his
big head on a little person’s body,
going toe-to-toe with Vince Vaughn
in his new ﬁlm “Fred Claus,” which
opened Friday. The image recalls
one of his ﬁrst music videos, featuring his head on a tiny body that
danced and gyrated in front of a
camera, rapping and cracking up
just about anybody who watched
the clip.
“The movie company and the
director came to me about the role
as the DJ in the North Pole,” he
said, chuckling. “And it was funny
because I had the video ‘Roll Out,’
where my head was a lot bigger than
the body, so that’s exactly what they
did in this movie. Technology these
days, man. It was a little person’s
body and a big head. I was in front
of a green screen with my role trying to coordinate the neck and head
movements.”
This is the ﬁrst time the rapper
– largely known for delivering vocally powerful tongue-in-cheek,
almost cartoonish rap lyrics – was
able to do a comedy. Before, he’s
been able to play up this trumped
up caricature of what a rapper is,
a stereotypical take on a guy who
may have had a criminal past.
“Fred Claus” was his chance
to create an all-ages comedy and
throw his critics – especially those
who have cast his work off largely
as ﬂash-in-the-pan, offensive rap
– a curveball. It also was a chance,
he said, to drive home a point that’s
close to his heart.
“You walk away from this ﬁlm,”
he said of the ﬁlm that taps the
Christmas spirit, “with a sense of

giving back.”
He doesn’t exactly broadcast it,
but his mother, Roberta Shields,
said that since he was a kid he’s
been quite the little philanthropist, a
role that plays out on a much bigger
stage today.
“It’s not like we started one day.
This is something that we’ve always done. The fact that he’s able
to do it on a larger scale than most is
great. In (Emerson) Middle School
right here in Oak Park (Ill.), he was
in a program with the older generation where he did the shopping and
the banking for the older people,”
Shields said. “So this is not something that’s new to him. It’s true to
who we are. But as he’s grown in
celebrity, his ability to give more
broadly has grown. This is second
nature. For him, this is what he’s
supposed to do.”
In 2001 – a year after he signed
with major label Def Jam – he started the Ludacris Foundation, an organization that teaches children how
to help themselves. The kids learn
how to eat healthier, to be leaders.
There’s a back-to-school program
in Atlanta and a similar program is
in the works for Chicago next year.
The foundation also has donated more than $500,000 to various
grass-roots organizations, including
The Little Black Pearl, a non-proﬁt
group on Chicago’s South Side that
teaches young people and adults
about the business of the arts.
The non-proﬁt Ludacris Foundation, based in Atlanta, has scored a
number of accolades, most recently the 2007 Spirit of Youth Award
from the Chicago-based National
Runaway Switchboard, which he
accepted the week before last at the
Drake Hotel.

To have a career like Johnny
Depp’s, you need serious charm,
killer good looks and the ability
to score key movie rolls that turn
ordinary people into major movie
stars.
Depp is quite possibly one of
the most versatile actors in Hollywood today. With movie roles
that vary between teen ﬂicks, suspenseful thrillers and all around
classics, Depp truly deﬁnes the art
of acting.
Depp was born in 1963 and
made his ﬁlm debut in the movie
“A Nightmare on Elm Street” in
1984. Depp has been romantically
linked to many actresses in Hollywood including Jennifer Grey,
Winona Ryder and Kate Moss.
Currently, Depp is living with his
longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis, with whom he has two children.
Aside from his personal agenda, today Depp is most recognized
as the witty, somewhat deranged
pirate in the summer blockbuster
hits, “Pirates Of The Caribbean.”
But what other movies roles have
catapulted this major movie star
onto the A-list in Hollywood?
This list includes just ﬁve of
Depp’s most memorable, and possibly most inﬂuential, movies in
his highly successful career.
“Edward Sissorhands” (1990)
This movie is just as the title explains it. An unﬁnished creation
(Depp) has scissors for hands and
has to cope with society around
him. With Edward’s dangerous
handicap, the audience learns
through his trials that there’s more
than meets the eye when it comes

to Edward Sissorhands.
“Sleepy Hollow” (1999) Tim
Burton is at it again with this
fresh twist on an eerie classic.
Depp plays a reporter sent to the
small town of Sleepy Hollow to
investigate a chain of supernatural
murders. This story is ﬁlled with
romance, suspense, and tons of
drama.
“Blow” (2001) A true story is
depicted on ﬁlm as Depp takes
on the real life character George
Jung, the man who established the
American cocaine market in the
1970s.
The story follows a family
through the trials of selling, buying and basking in all the glory of
the cocaine market we once knew.

Ultimately ending in tragedy, this
story truly portrays the truth behind the life of a cocaine dealer.
“Pirates Of The Caribbean”
(2003) The original in this threepart series follows the life of a
slightly unhinged pirate, Capitan
Jack Sparrow.
This story includes captivating
romance, non-stop action and all
the excitement you can handle.
“Charlie And The Chocolate Factory” (2005) One of the
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Depp takes on the infamous Willy
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Classic ‘Jane Eyre’ still good
LAUREN WOOD
STAFF REPORTER

Instead of doing a review on
a new and recent book, I wanted
to share my thoughts on a book I
believe everyone, young and old,
should read: “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte.
A classic that many have heard
of, but few have actually read,
“Jane Eyre” is a novel about an
orphan who is determined to rise
above poverty and her lowly station
in Victorian society. It follows her
throughout her childhood as she becomes a governess, where she succeeds in ﬁnding independence and
love.
However, there is a twist when
she learns of the dark secret her
lover, who also happens to be her
employer, has kept from her.
You know, I have always been
taught not to date your boss, for it
ends badly.
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in the back of your mind.
First off, I am a sap. No question

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that make me sigh with content.
“Jane Eyre” is one of those books
that you can curl up on a couch with
a blanket and a bag of some fattening, sugary snack and read for
hours, not wanting to put it down.
Granted, there are a few chapters
that start to lose your attention. They
seem to babble on and on, when really you just want to get to the good
parts. But bear through it and it is
worth it in the end.
Bronte’s writing is brilliant in that
she allows you to connect with the
characters and when a love interest
arises … well, I at least couldn’t put
the book down and I eagerly read
to ﬁnd out what would happen between the lovers.
But it is not just a love story. It
shows you that you can become
something from nothing and women can deﬁnitely relate to Jane, a
plain and penniless young woman,
but who is also full of courage and
spirit. It is deﬁnitely one of those
“feel good” novels.
Don’t just read the current novels, but give the old classics a shot,
too.

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BY KATHLEEN PURVIS
McClatchy Newspapers

f you’re hosting Thanksgiving this year, you have
plenty on your plate. There are groceries to buy,
linens to iron and dishes to prepare. We offer a
planning guide to help you with the holiday. We’ve
included turkey cooking times, food safety tips, schedules to get you through the day and more.

HOW TO HANDLE A TURKEY
What size: Figure 1 to 11/2 pounds per person to
allow for plenty of leftovers. Turkeys smaller than 12
pounds often don’t have much meat on their bones.
Turkeys larger than 16 pounds are difficult to
handle, so consider switching to two smaller
birds.
What kind: You have a lot of
choices. Fresh turkeys are common
in supermarkets now, along with
the full array of frozen birds.
Free-range turkeys are available
from some stores, although they
usually have to be specially
ordered.
Thawing: The safest way is
in the refrigerator. Figure 24
hours for every 4 pounds of
weight. If you need to thaw it faster,
put the wrapped turkey in a sink filled
with cold water. Check the water every
30 minutes to make sure it stays cold.
Figure 30 minutes per pound.

Stuffed
turkeys take
longer to cook
than unstuffed
ones, and the center
of the stuffing should
reach at least 165 degrees.

PREPPING

T. O R T E G A G A I N E S / M C C L AT C H Y N E W S PA P E R S

WEDNESDAY

(of the week
before Thanksgiving)

Finish the guest list. If anyone
is bringing a dish, get a commitment on what it will be.
Choose the menu, including
appetizers, beverages and
turkey size. Figure on 1 to 11/2
pounds uncooked turkey per
person, to allow leftovers.
Make a copy of this checklist
and hang it in a handy place.
Assign cleaning chores to your
spouse and children.

THURSDAY
Clean out the refrigerator,
freezer and cupboard.
Clear off the kitchen counters.
Put away appliances you won’t
need this week.
Make a shopping list in two
parts: Things you need right
away, and perishables. Include
paper goods such as napkins
and cups, cleaning supplies,
and bags and wraps for leftovers.

FRIDAY
Get out the serving pieces.
Match them against your menu
and make sure you have a container and serving spoon for
every dish. Label the bottoms
with tape or Post-it notes.
Count glasses, plates and
chairs and make a list of anything you need to rent or
borrow.

Get out your pots and pans and
do a mental run-through of the
menu. Do you have a roaster
that will hold a 20-pound
turkey? (Use a sack of potatoes
as a rough guide.) Will it fit in
your oven?
Polish servers and silverware if
needed.
Get out table linens, check for
stains and iron them if needed.

SATURDAY
Go shopping for nonperishable
items. If you’re buying a frozen
turkey, get it now so it will
have time to thaw. If you are
ordering a fresh turkey or floral
arrangement, do it by today.
Start the housecleaning, or
check on chores assigned to
family members.

SUNDAY
If you’re using a frozen turkey
that is larger than 16 pounds,
put it on a pan to catch drips
and move it into the refrigerator. If you’re using a fresh
turkey, you can get it today.
If you’re serving a green salad,
core and wash the lettuce.
Wrap it in paper towels, place
in a resealable bag, press out
the air and refrigerate.
Finish the housecleaning and
rearrange any furniture if
needed.
Thin out your coat closet to
make room for guests’ wraps.

MONDAY
If you’re using a frozen turkey
that is less than 16 pounds,
place it on a pan to catch drips
and move to the refrigerator.
Make cranberry sauce and refrigerate it. If you’re making an
appetizer such as a cheese ball or
toasted nuts, make it today.

MCT HANDOUT

A measuring cup can
help degrease pan juices.

TUESDAY
Sweep the front walk and
porch if needed.
Make up drinks, such as iced
tea or mulled cider, and refrigerate them.
Make a final trip to the store
for perishables if needed. Pick
up a couple of bags of ice if
you can store them.

WEDNESDAY
Set the table and arrange the
centerpiece.
Make mashed potatoes.
Refrigerate. Cut and toast the
bread for the dressing.
Bake the sweet potatoes, peel
and mash, if desired. Cover and
refrigerate.
If you’re brining the turkey,
make the brine. Unwrap the
turkey, remove the giblet bag
and the neck from the cavities.
Place turkey in brine and keep
cold in refrigerator or cooler
filled with ice. If you’re not
brining, check to make sure the
turkey is thawed.
Prepare any desserts and refrigerate.

9 a.m.: If the turkey is 16 to 20 pounds, pre2:30 p.m.: Remove turkey from oven and
heat the oven. If the turkey has been brined,
tent loosely with foil. Drain drippings if you
rinse it well. If you’re stuffing, spoon dressing
plan to make gravy. Put the bread in the oven.
loosely into body cavity and neck. Place on rack
Ask a volunteer to pour drinks.
in roasting pan. Place in the oven. Refrigerate
2:40 p.m.: Make gravy.
remaining dressing.
2:50 p.m.: Carve
10:30 a.m.: If the
the turkey. Remove
turkey is 12 pounds or
the mashed potatoes,
under, preheat the
dressing and bread
oven and start it now.
from the oven and
Noon: Finish settake them to the table.
ting the table. Make
Put the sweet potatoes
sure salt and pepper
in serving dishes and
shakers are full, put
take them to the table.
out serving spoons
2:55 p.m.: Start
and get the butter dish
the coffee pot. Get
ready. Get sweet potadessert from refrigeratoes out of the refrigBOB FILA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE
tor.
erator and let them
Let the turkey sit about 20 minutes before
3 p.m.: Sit down,
come to room temper- carving.
relax and enjoy your
ature.
dinner.
1:45 p.m.: Put mashed potatoes in the oven
4 p.m.: Don’t let the turkey sit out longer
to reheat. If you didn’t stuff the turkey, cover
than this. Trim off leftover meat. Wrap meat for
dressing with lid or foil and place in the oven.
sandwiches and refrigerate up to 3 days. Cut up
Wrap fresh bread or rolls with foil and set aside.
extra meat, wrap well and freeze. Wrap the car2 p.m.: Get the cranberry sauce out of the
cass and refrigerate for soup. Put away other
refrigerator and put in a serving dish. Remove
leftovers and plan to use within 3 days.
the covers from the dressing and add broth if it
4:30 p.m.: Take a walk and enjoy yourself.
seems dry.

Large glass measuring
cup: Preferably 4- to 6-cup
capacity, although 2-cup is
also fine, for measuring and
degreasing pan juices for
gravy.
Fat-separating cup: A
glass measuring cup will
work, but these cups with offset spouts save a lot of mess.
Roasting pan: A goodquality, heavy pan distributes
heat more evenly and is safer
and more convenient to handle than a disposable pan.
Turkey lifter: It’s not indispensable, but if you’re cooking a very large turkey, it’s
handy.
Roasting rack: There are
many styles, including flat
racks and V-shaped versions
that are often adjustable.
Whichever kind you choose,
make sure it will fit in your
roasting pan.
Bulb baster: These are
handy for basting dressing
and turkeys and removing
juices from the pan. Make
sure it’s heat-resistant.
Kitchen string: For tying
legs (many turkeys now come
with slits in the skin or metal
or plastic clips for this).
Brining bags: If you’re
brining, these disposable bags
make things easier.
Meat thermometer: Don’t
trust the pop-up timers in
turkeys. They’re unreliable.
Instant-read thermometer: Indispensable, for checking the temperature at the center of stuffing or dressing, and
for checking to make sure
leftovers have been thoroughly reheated.
Carving knife and meat
fork: A sharpened chef’s
knife will work fine.
Whisk: For gravy (a fork
will also work).

Where to call
or get information when the
bird isn’t baking
like you planned.

THANKSGIVING GUIDE

� Unwrap the turkey.
� Remove giblets and neck from the body and
neck cavity. Reserve for making stock for gravy.
� Wash well, inside and out, with cold running
water. Pat dry with paper towels.
� Prepare turkey according to your recipe, including brining, rubbing skin with oil, butter and herbs, or
placing onions and celery in the cavity.
� Tie legs if desired, or use the clip provided with
the turkey, or tuck legs into slit in skin. Hold each
wing by the thickest section and bend the tip so you
can push it under the back.
� Insert a meat thermometer into the thickest part
of the inner thigh, near the breast, angling to make
sure it doesn’t touch bone.
� If you don’t have a meat thermometer, use an
instant-read thermometer to periodically take a reading
at the same spot. (Don’t leave the instant-read thermometer in the bird while it’s in the oven.)
� Place in a roasting pan, preferably on a rack.
� Wash your hands with hot, soapy water and dry
them with paper towels after handling raw turkey.

STUFFING VS. NOT STUFFING
A stuffed bird takes several minutes per pound
longer to cook, and you must make sure the center of
the stuffing reaches at least 165 degrees. Use an
instant-read thermometer to check it. Don’t combine
stuffing and eggs until just before using and don’t stuff
the turkey in advance. Spoon stuffing loosely into the
turkey cavity; it will expand as it cooks. Remove stuffing as soon as it comes out of the oven.

TURKEY ROASTING TIMES
Recommended cooking times at 325 degrees,
according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
(Adjust if you’re following a recipe that calls for a
higher temperature or for starting the turkey at higher
temperature and reducing the heat later in the cooking
time. Never use a method that cooks turkey at less than
325 degrees.)
Weight
8 to 12 pounds
12 to 14 pounds
14 to 18 pounds
18 to 20 pounds

PATRICK JOHNSTON | THE WICHITAN
MSU’s Cody Thompson, 42, grabs ACU running back Bernard Scott’s (3) ankle as Ryan Craven, 30, rushes in to bring down the Harlon Hill candidate on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. The Mustangs lost a commanding lead and fell to the Wildcats, 42-41, to end the season at 8-3.

Mustangs end season in heartbreaker, 42-41
BOBBY MORRIS
STAFF REPORTER
If we’ve seen it once, we’ve
seen it a thousand times.
Daniel Polk shines in yet another great football game played
at Memorial Stadium.
His record-setting performance
wasn’t enough for the No. 19 Mustangs to get the win last Saturday.
MSU dropped the season ﬁnale
to No. 17 Abilene Christian, and
with the loss came the disappearance of any post-season hopes.
Midwestern owned the ﬁrst half
of the game, converting each of its
ﬁrst four possessions into touchdowns.
They galloped out to an early
28-7 lead mostly by the play of
Polk and the MSU defense.
While the defense made ACU
punt the ball and turn it over on
downs on two of its ﬁrst three possessions, Polk was busy scoring

points on the ground on each of
their ﬁrst three possessions.
Scoring on runs of 14, 28, and
16 yards, respectively, Polk was
well on his way to posting yet another top rushing performance for
MSU.
A short touchdown run by Steven Harper in the early minutes of
the second quarter gave MSU their
biggest lead of the day, 28-7.
ACU rallied to score two touchdowns before halftime to tighten
up the score at 31-21.
Following Harper’s second 1yard touchdown run at the beginning of the second half to put MSU
up 38-21, it turned into Bernard
Scott night at Memorial Stadium.
The running back from Vernon,
Texas, scored with seconds remaining in the third quarter to
claw the Wildcats back to only a
10 point deﬁcit.
Then, following Polk’s only
interception of the night, Scott

pounded in another short-yardage
touchdown to get his team within
a ﬁeld-goal with 11 minutes left in
regulation.
The Mustangs’ offense did what
they had to do in the next drive.
They ate up a lot of the clock,
sustaining an 11-play, seven minute drive, but they just couldn’t get
into the end zone.
Place-kicker Jose Martinez
knocked in the 30-yard ﬁeld goal
with four minutes left on the clock,
giving the Mustangs a 41-35 lead.
When ACU got the ball, quarterback Billy Malone methodically
moved the ball down the ﬁeld.
First down after ﬁrst down,
the Wildcats went straight down
the length of the ﬁeld, eventually
capitalizing on Scott’s third rushing touchdown in the ﬁnal 15:03
of the game.
They scored with only :43 left
on the game clock, taking a 1-point
lead, 42-41, and there was no last-

minute magic from the Mustangs.
Polk ﬁnished the day with a
school record for rushing yards in
a single game with 290.
He also threw for 187 more
yards on 14 of 22 passing.
DelJuan Lee was his leading receiver, yet again, ﬁnishing with six
receptions for 78 yards.
The Mustang offense rang up
over 600 total yards for the fourth
time this season, ﬁnishing with
the second most rushing yards in
school history, 467.
B.J. Mathis ran for 101 yards on
13 carries, and Marcus Mathis ran
the ball 11 times for 74 yards, to
help Polk on the ground.
Scott ﬁnished his impressive
performance with 269 all-purpose
yards to go along with his three
late touchdowns.
Both Scott and Polk were both
later named LSC Co-Offensive
Player of the Week for their play.
With this loss it was going to be

tough for MSU to gain a berth into
the 24-team ﬁeld for the rights to
play for a national championship.
As the bracket was announced
Sunday, it became evident that Saturday was not only the last game
of the year for this team, but also
the last time Mustangs fans would
see Polk play for MSU.
Polk’s enormous list of accomplishments are clearly evident in
the MSU record books.
During his career, Polk amassed
the most rushing yards, rushing
touchdowns, total offensive yards,
and total touchdowns accounted
for, than any other Mustang.
He also ﬁnished second in career pass completions, passing
yards, passing touchdowns, and
pass completion percentage.
Polk was also the only quarterback in all of college football this
season to throw for over 2,000
yards while surpassing 1,000 yards
on the ground, as well.

As the season is ﬁnishing up and
post-season awards are being dealt
out, many feature Polk on them.
He has been announced to be in
the Harlon Hill ﬁnal 24 candidates.
The Harlon Hill Trophy is the Division II equivalent to the Heisman
Trophy in Division I football.
The LSC also announced their
post-season awards this past Tuesday, naming 19 Mustangs on its
ﬁrst team, second team, and honorable mention.
Polk and center Tony Burson
were named to the ﬁrst team offense, while cornerback Patrick
Roberts and outside linebacker
Frank Brown were named to the
ﬁrst team defense.
Polk was named D2Football.
com National Player of the Week.
Burson was named to the ESPN
the Magazine’s Academic All-District 6 second team, while punter
Ben White was awarded with a
ﬁrst team selection.

Men’s basketball team goes 1-1 in exhibition
BOBBY MORRIS
STAFF REPORTER
The Mustangs opened up their
new season last Saturday, as they
played host to last year’s NAIA Division I national champions, Oklahoma City University.
Led by their new transfer, Ollie Bailey from Rutgers, the Stars
led from the tip-off and eventually
grinded out the ﬁve point victory.
MSU pieced together some decent runs, even cutting the lead to
one point twice in the second half,
but they could never gain the advantage.
OKCU controlled the tempo for
most of the game, dominating the
rebound battle, 40-27.
The Mustangs came out of the
gate slowly, ﬁnding themselves in a

44-35 hole with less than two minutes to go in the ﬁrst half.
Then came the spark MSU needed to go into the half with.
Chris Davis took the team on his
shoulders as he went on a personal
8-2 run.
Davis put back an offensive rebound for a score, then followed
with two 3-pointers, the last one
barely beating out the buzzer.
MSU was still trailing 46-43
entering halftime, but the run gave
them the momentum to push them
into the second half.
MSU tried to capitalize on this
momentum, pushing the defending champs to the limit at multiple
times during the second half.
Bailey and the Stars just wouldn’t
let go of the lead, though, as they
secured the victory late, 83-78.
Trajinski Grigsby put in 17 points

while snatching up ﬁve boards to
lead the Mustangs.
Senior Christopher Reay also
contributed with 11 points and four
rebounds of his own.
On Tuesday, MSU hosted Wayland Baptist to close out its exhibition schedule.
After a slow start, Reay turned
it on in the second half, scoring 10

points and going 3-for-5 from the
ﬁeld.
Nolan Richardson IV dominated with 15 points, six assists, two
blocks and two steals as MSU beat
the Pioneers, 68-64.
Midwestern will open up the
regular season this Friday in San
Antonio, taking on St. Edward’s in
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TIMEOUT

Name: Sesley Graves
Sport: Volleyball
Position: Middle Blocker
Number: 4
Major: Psychology, Spanish
Hometown: Wichita Falls, TX
1. Do you have any
nicknames?
“I don’t really have any. I
sometimes go by my middle
name, Simone.”
2. What is your toughest
class? Why?
“Psychological Statistics,
because it involves relating math to pshchology and
that’s kinda tough.”
3. What is your favorite
song right now? Why?
“Glory by Kanye West,
because I like Kanye’s
conﬁdence and he’s political. He raps about things
that matter.”

Sports

BOBBY MORRIS
STAFF REPORTER
The MSU men’s soccer team will
play in the Elite Eight for the third
time in the 12 years they’ve been a
part of NCAA Division II.
The Mustangs’ heart-breaking 10 loss to West Texas last week gave
the Buffs a share of the Southwest
Soccer Conference championship
and granted Canyon, Texas, to be
the host for the regional tournament.
The Mustangs were determined
to play another game in front of
their home fans though.
This was their motivation.
In their ﬁrst regional game last
Thursday against Metro State, MSU
came out blazing, leaving Metro
State in an insurmountable 3-0
hole.
That was just in the ﬁrst 13 minutes of play.
Daniel Brown’s free kick was converted by midﬁelder Obed Becerra
in the third minute of the match,
and from there, the Mustangs didn’t
look back.
Later, in the 10th minute, Robert
Swann converted a penalty kick to
put MSU up 2-0.
Then Brown struck again, this
time knocking in an easy breakaway
goal himself in the 13th minute.
“We had four shots on goal early
and scored three of them to put the
other team in the hole,” said MSU

Coach Doug Elder. “It was great to
get off to a good start.”
To add insult to injury, Metro
State’s Brad Gorham took down
Kyle Kmiec in the box in the 29th
minute and was ejected.
Kmiec capitalized on the opportunity, putting MSU up 4-0 on the
following penalty kick.
Metro State tried to climb out of
the deﬁcit playing the rest of the
game a man down.
Needless to say, MSU took care
of business, eventually extending
their ﬁrst half lead to 6-0.
Danny Kastelic, Eddie Lett and
Jeremy Elder all got in the mix,
scoring goals for MSU, before allowing Metro State to put one on
the board in the 83rd minute.
MSU claimed the 8-1 victory and
turned their attention squarely to the
home team.
In order to move on, the Mustangs would have to beat West Texas A&M on their home turf.
On Saturday MSU pieced together another dominating performance
against the Buffs.
Playing stellar defense and relying on timely saves from goalkeeper
Jeremy Turner, they would eventually grind out a tremendous victory,
1-0.
Tyler Murphy took the ball down
the right wing before ﬁnding Ahmad Ihmeidan for a 1-timer in the
seventh minute of the match.
WTAMU had some good looks
at goals in the second half, but MSU

6. Who is your favorite
athlete? Why?
“My mom, Alice
Taylor. She played
basketball for MSU in the
80s. I get happy when I see
successful minorites and
she’s my hero. Plus she was
a badass when she played
here.”

9. What are your plans
for Thanksgiving? What
are you thankful for?
“I’m going to Dallas to
spend time with my mom.
I’m thankful for family and
just being blessed. It sounds
corny but so many other
people have it worse.”
10. Where do you see
yourself in ten years?
“Living in Austin with
two kids, a nice house and a
good job.”

PATRICK JOHNSTON | THE WICHITAN
MSU’s Krissa Johnson, left, reaches for the ball and tries to
get it over two Dallas Baptist defenders in a match earlier
this season at D.L. Ligon Coliseum.

7

PATRICK JOHNSTON | THE WICHITAN
MSU’s Brannon Calvert, 17, and Jeremy Elder, 3, leave the ground to get a ball against West
Texas A&M goalie Shane Taylor, 0, and players Freddy Montes, 4, and Kenneth Christensen,
6, while Ahmad Ihmeidan, 10,on Nov. 4 at The MSU Soccer Field. MSU lost 1-0 but have been
on a roll since.

MSU Soccer Field.
Midwestern will play host to Sonoma State University (California)
in the NCAA Division II Elite Eight
this Saturday at 7 p.m.
“We’re excited to stay home,”
Elder said. “We’ll be able to play an

Elite Eight game on our home ﬁeld.
We are looking forward to playing
in front of a packed house.”
The winner of the match will advance to NCAA Division II semiﬁnals at the City of Orange Beach
Sportsplex in Alabama.

Entering the Lone Star Conference tournament, MSU was looking
to solidify their ranking and show
the NCAA selection committee that
they belonged in the annual tournament.
It’s tough to do that when you
lose your ﬁrst game though.
The third-seeded Mustangs came
out strong against the sixth-seeded
Aggies of Cameron University, taking the ﬁrst game of the match, 3025.
A tough second game loss added
to a dominating 7-0 run by Cameron late in the third game sealed
Midwestern’s fate; 30-25, 30-28,
30-20.
The Mustangs fell to 27-5 on the
season, and had to wait to see if the
selection committee would grant
them a pass despite their disappointing defeat.
Their school-record season could
have been without a post-season
game if the committee didn’t choose
to invite them.
The seniors of the squad led the
way in the tight match.

Outside hitter Krissa Johnson
chipped in 15 kills as Rachel Gilmore contributed eight digs to go
along with three kills of her own.
After falling in the ﬁrst game, the
Aggies rallied to steal the second
game from MSU.
Trailing 27-28, Cameron scored
three straight points to give them
the game, 30-28.
From that point on MSU seemingly tightened up, and didn’t put
up much of a ﬁght in the ﬁnal game
as Cameron pulled off a 11-1 streak
to win the match, 30-20.
Whitney Maxwell played a good
match, putting up 13 kills and hitting with a team-high .550 attack
percentage.
Setter Allison Schreiber also
played a stellar all-around match
despite the loss, notching 50 assists
to go along with 10 digs and ﬁve
kills.
So, all the Mustangs could do
was sit, wait, and hope that their
magniﬁcent regular season would
be enough to propel them into their
ﬁrst ever NCAA Division II Tournament.
MSU received news early on Monday that they would be invited to its

ﬁrst NCAA Division II Tournament
in program history.
They were given a berth into the
Southwest Regional tournament at
the Health and Sports Center in Kearney, Neb.
MSU will ﬁttingly open up the
tournament against archrival West
Texas A&M.
They will attempt to avenge the
3-game sweep dealt to the them by
the Lady Buffs on Oct. 25th.
The game is set to begin at
2:30pm on Friday.
“We played awful at the LSC
tournament.” MSU Coach Venera
Flores-Stafford said. “We’ll get a
chance to redeem ourselves in the
national tournament. I am really
happy for the seniors because you
never want to ﬁnish your career
with that kind of loss.”
Gilmore was named to the ESPN
the Magazine Academic All-District
6 third team last Thursday. The early childhood major, from Arlington,
Texas, has competed in every one
of the Mustangs’ 32 matches this
season, averaging .96 kills and 2.15
digs per match.

for Carr’s choice to come to MSU.
“I love the people here.”
“This was a challenge,…a chance
to do something I’ve never done before.”

Carr thought a move from Division I to Division II wouldn’t be too
bad either.
“I wanted to get back close to
coaches and athletes,…D1 really

didn’t give me that privilege.”
Carr says he thinks the way
things are being done here is ﬁne,
but he plans to improve the women’s
sports program, improve community involvement, both ﬁnancially and
physically, and increase attendance
to sports events.

held them to only eight shots for the
afternoon.
MSU did what they had to do to
regain home-ﬁeld advantage.
Following other regional action,
the Mustangs got what they wanted: a another chance to play at The

Lady Mustangs trot on to regionals
BOBBY MORRIS
STAFF REPORTER

5. Why did you choose
MSU?
“It is close to home and
cheaper. I like the smallness
of the campus and I knew a
lot of people coming here.”

4. What is a non-athletic
talent you have?
“I like to sing. I sing
at Bethleham Missionary
Baptist Church. I’m pretty
good.”

7. If you could play
another sport in college,
what would you play?
“Basketball. I got skills.”

THE WICHITAN

Carr travels long road to Midwestern, set to drive MSU in right direction
NICHOL PHILLIP
FOR THE WICHITAN
Have you met Charlie Carr?
Carr comes to MSU from Florida
State University, where he served as
Assistant Athletic Director for 13
years.
Carr is our new Athletic Director
here at MSU.
Carr obtained his bachelor’s degree in history from University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
then spent two and a half years
playing minor league baseball for
the New York Mets.
He then decided to go back to

UNC to gain his master’s degree in
education.
Carr said a chance to be a graduate
assistant and an assistant coach for
the football team were his motivations for going back to college.
Carr was in the process of moving when MSU got its hands on
him.
The University of Arizona had
offered him a position of Assistant
Athletic Director, which he had accepted.
Carr’s plans quickly changed
when he heard of position opening
at MSU.
“It just felt right,” Carr said.
There are a multitude of reasons